Thailand's Secret War: Oss, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II

ISBN-13: 9780521836012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 484 str.

E. Bruce Reynolds; Hew Strachan; Geoffrey Wawro

Opis

Despite its 1941 alliance with Japan, Thai leaders managed to establish clandestine relations with China, Britain and the United States, each of which had ambitions for postwar influence in Bangkok. Based largely on recently declassified intelligence records, this narrative history thoroughly explores these relations, details Allied secret operations and sheds new light on the intense rivalry between the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'The book is an exemplar of close-knit historical investigation … the author is to be congratulated on a fine intellectual effort.' Asian Affairs

Spis treści

List of illustrations; List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on names and transliteration; Prologue; 1. The origins of the Free Thai Movement; 2. The China tangle; 3. Chamkat and the Allies; 4. Showdown in Friendship Valley; 5. Frustrated hopes; 6. Contact at last; 7. The OSS commits to Pridi; 8. Pridi's bid for national redemption; 9. Arming and training the underground; 10. The end game; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.